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One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces relates the adventures of eleven-year-old Lucius Priest on the day he stole his grandfather's car to drive to Memphis. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune.The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail. "... this is a deceptively funny, complex saga about a boy, a stolen automobile and the South in 1905... It is a fine, wild, poignant book." - Kirkus Reviews"The Reivers" was published in 1962, barely a month before Faulkner's death that July. It is a work of fiction, but he called it "A Reminiscence." This appears to have less to do with any direct connections to his own boyhood (though doubtless th

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Author

William Faulkner

Publisher

Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679741923

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (5,259 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14